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EA makes the best games when the executives get out of the way. Some developers took all of the assets that they had from Battlefront 2 (which was a gorgeous piece of crap) and made one of the best Star Wars flight sims I've ever seen.

That's not good from a player standpoint that seems to suggest that there isn't going to be any updates which is probably why they went the CCG route.

In my experience people who know a little about computers are more dangerous than the ones who know nothing.

I've had people come into the repair shop who've uninstalled programs they don't recognise and then it turns out that the programs they don't recognise was the graphics driver. A complete novice would just have not gone into the program list to begin with.

Do schools even teach basic computing anymore, when I was at school we got taught how to program and I feel like that's not done anymore.

That's like saying that everyone should become an electrician. It's just not a practical expectation.

Although in fairness Windows is not being particularly reliable in that regard as of late.

You can buy computers without an operating system installed on it but most consumers barely understand what a computer is and would think that a computer without an operating system was broken. So there never was much of a market and then Microsoft came along and paid the OEMs to install Windows.

Quite a few website will let you untick the windows 11 licence if you want to go your own way.

Unfortunately the Linux market is so fragmented that your average user is overwhelmed. This is not helped by the Linux community who in a general rule are not particularly accommodating towards novices.

Your American trolley skills are insufficient. You'll be overwhelmed by it and just spin around in place.

This whole drowned forests off the coast of the UK and I also believe New Zealand has something similar. That whole region is basically just a drowned continent with a few mountains sticking up, forming islands.

I knew someone who utterly refused to believe that dinosaurs weren't the first organisms in existence. He literally thought it was dinosaurs, then there was an asteroid impact and then basically humans arrived about 10 minutes later.

People have absolutely no understanding of the immense amount of time that has existed before we came along.

Mind he also gave me that whole if earth was 1 cm closer to the sun, we would all burn up malarkey, so maybe he's just an idiot.

I suppose an appropriately trained parrot might do.

To be clear though, you should just watch the birds.

They have always been bad at lying. Every lie this administration tells is obviously transparent, if they were good enough to concoct a reasonable lie they would be intelligent enough to not get involved in a war with an oil producing country without first restocking their oil reserves. No one this administration has any brains at all.